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"Teaching Reading with the Social Studies Standards: Elementary Units that Integrate Great Books, Social Studies, and the Com -More- 

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Colorado Christian University

George Weinberg,American psychologist, writer and activist -More- 

Presidents, first ladies and one first daughter (Harry and Bess Truman's daughter, Margaret Truman) recently were portrayed b -More- 

Woodville Elementary School is the oldest school in Leon County, Fla., and teachers use the history of their school, which op -More- 

The Santa Ana Unified School District in California is using a team of 44 "teacher specialists" to craft lesson plans to alig -More- 

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Hamilton County, Tenn., schools are using federal grants and other available dollars to invest in mobile devices as the schoo -More- 

A student from Yuba City Unified School District in California says a new grading system, in which teachers are required to s -More- 

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Sandra Day O'Connor may have retired from the U.S.  -More- 

Homework assignments at Massachusetts' Ashland High School have been modernized, thanks to senior Ankit Kumar and junior Andr -More- 

The education system currently discourages the teaching of values and morals, despite the fact that students are growing up a -More- 

NCSS is accepting nominations and applications for the following 2012 awards and grants: Outstanding Social Studies Teacher o -More- 

NCSS members -- please remember to vote in the 2013 Board of Directors Election.  -More- 

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Colorado Christian University

Anna Lappé,American writer, speaker and activist -More- 

Third-grade students at an Indiana elementary school took on the persona of American icons of their choosing, culminating a s -More- 

The writer of this New York Times blog post suggests that teachers address Women's History Month with a brief lesson that sho -More- 

The Common Core State Standards are not perfect, but they have changed high-school English teacher Lyn Cannaday's classroom f -More- 

New York officials are preparing for the expected decline in test scores as it becomes one of the few states to align this ye -More- 

The Food Network show "Restaurant Impossible" offers insights that could help educators upgrade their curriculum, suggests Mi -More-